there’s been a lot of controversy over this ad.
it was ripped off a group of university students who uploaded their film on youtube.
advertising falls victim of not hiding its sources well enough. again.
This is actually ripped off from a psychology paper that was published in 1999 by a Dan Simons (http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/) using a man in a gorilla suit. Its been on TV many times since then and I think that Dan copyrighted this idea so the advertisers could end up in a spot of bother here… I have heard that the BBC have been sued by him at least twice for ripping off this idea without permission in documentaries. Its a great piece of work by the way!
To be a bit of an anorak about this, the original idea was not Dan’s but was an experiment run in the 1960s using a woman with an umbrella rather than a gorilla…
I’d seen this on a few blogs but never watched it.
Very clever, and proof I suppose that wearing a hi-viz jacket on the bike is better than a bear costume.
Thanks for sharing.
Apr 5th, 2008 / 5:54 am
there’s been a lot of controversy over this ad.
it was ripped off a group of university students who uploaded their film on youtube.
advertising falls victim of not hiding its sources well enough. again.
Apr 7th, 2008 / 5:15 am
This is actually ripped off from a psychology paper that was published in 1999 by a Dan Simons (http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/) using a man in a gorilla suit. Its been on TV many times since then and I think that Dan copyrighted this idea so the advertisers could end up in a spot of bother here… I have heard that the BBC have been sued by him at least twice for ripping off this idea without permission in documentaries. Its a great piece of work by the way!
To be a bit of an anorak about this, the original idea was not Dan’s but was an experiment run in the 1960s using a woman with an umbrella rather than a gorilla…
Apr 7th, 2008 / 10:24 am